My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 7 This is too free

So Rang Weidong, who was used to using navigation software, immediately bought a map.

Dad is preparing on an empty stomach today and will have the surgery tomorrow morning. Seeing the possibility of getting rid of paralysis, Weidong's heavy mood that has been weighing on him for decades has become much happier.

Even if he doesn't know how to express it yet.

There seemed to be many possibilities in this life, which he did not dare to think about, nor was he used to thinking about.

I stayed in that tiny security booth, living in a daze for forty years.

He is actually as confused as a 19-year-old boy looking around.

I don’t know what I can do, so I think following the richest man might make my life more worthwhile.

But the most important thing at the moment is to sell good bacon and make more money.

It feels so fulfilling to have money in my pocket.

At a roadside newsstand, I spent 15 cents to buy a map of the provincial capital, which also came with a map of the entire country on the back.

Cost-effective!

Out of curiosity, he also took a copy of the "National Railway Passenger Train Timetable" which cost 60 cents next to it.

Proud!

It seems that with these two things, it is just like pressing the M key in an online game, and you can switch to know the direction at any time.

I greedily flipped through the timetable which was over 300 pages long and as thick as a finger.

You can go to Pingjing for 32 yuan!
Thirty-seven yuan to go to Shanghai!
He has never been on a train.

Even forty years later, he couldn't even think about flying.

So I'd buy a few five-cent newspapers and twenty-cent magazines.

Buy what you want, don’t hesitate.

So domineering!
I can finally take a breath and look at this era.

But for now, I'd better take the opportunity to buy books and newspapers to find out the exact location of the wholesale market at the dock, and follow the navigation software's habit on the map to mark out a route with my fingernails.

I deliberately didn't take a car and walked three or four miles, just in time to pass through the most lively and prosperous areas of the provincial capital and take a look.

With the hospital's diagnosis in his pocket, Weidong was very sure that he would not be mistaken for a migrant worker.

You can relax and walk in this big city built in 1983.

The provincial capital is different. There are tall buildings everywhere, and it is bustling with people coming and going even in the summer afternoons.

But in the eyes of Weidong, who has witnessed the changes in cities and towns over the past forty years, even the later county town was much more colorful than it is now.

Moreover, the seriousness unique to this era made him feel that if he was caught once while hawking goods from door to door, he would be doomed.

So when I walked to the dock, I saw the streets and alleys along the river that were flooded and exposed every year with the rise and fall of the flood, and the various chaotic layers of brick and tile houses and stilt houses.

It completely washed away the serious revolutionary atmosphere of the city center.

Instead, I feel like I've come to the right place.

The streets have lost some of their former neatness and have been replaced by a chaotic array of restaurants, shops, and industrial product stores.

There are actually many old shops that look like those from the Republic of China era, with wooden boards sliding vertically into the door slots.

Closer to the freedom of the next twenty or thirty years.

When asking along the way, everyone mentioned that the Chinese medicinal materials market is the starting point, and that is the area where transactions and wholesale take place.

So a strong aroma of Chinese medicinal materials led him over and he soon entered the market along the branch road beside the main road.

The empty high roofs cover the street to form a market.

The entire street is filled with linen bags of various Chinese medicinal materials, and on both sides are various medicinal material sales departments, businesses, and stores.

Occasionally you can see a mountain goods shop selling furs and other things.

Weidong even wondered if bacon could also be considered a mountain product.

But just as he curiously leaned forward to ask someone, he suddenly felt a bump on his waist. Looking back, he saw two waist-high children pushing and playing around.

He was about to look away, just like a security guard, but he noticed the kids were actually trying to cover each other up with their furtive glances. He immediately reached out and found that the ten yuan in his trouser pocket was gone!
Without saying a word, he rushed forward and slapped the child on the head with the books, newspapers and maps tucked under his armpit. He then grabbed their necks with his left and right hands, and reached down directly from their struggling arms to squeeze his roll of banknotes out of one of the guys' hands.

There were too many naughty kids like this in the primary school next to the tax compound, and Weidong, who had a disabled hand, was often teased by them.

Now the reaction is super skillful.

But just like the way the worse the city kids are, the more unreasonable their parents are likely to be, out of the corner of my eye I immediately saw a woman with a barrel waist running towards me with the momentum of a Tiger tank charging!

Looking back, I saw two men approaching from a distance with sullen faces.

Weidong immediately let go of the child and moved forward, deliberately taking a few steps sideways from him.

As expected, the opponent did not hesitate to provide backup defense, and immediately pressed closely with the momentum of dribbling the ball and bumping into the opponent.

Haha, Wei Dong almost made a back-to-back one-handed layup, but just a temporary change of direction was enough. The sideways step just now was more like a fake move. He had already swayed back to the original route and passed by the middle-aged woman who missed her shot.

Caught off guard, the shrewd man fell to the ground, screaming heartbreakingly like an American professional football defender who failed to form a wall: "I hit someone, I hit someone, I'm going to kill someone!"

Damn it!
Did the "bumping into cars" thing happen in 83?

Wei Dong didn't dare to stay and harass her, so he walked faster.

Anyway, wherever I looked, the people in the medicinal materials market all had expressions of being accustomed to watching a show.

Just as they were about to rush out of the market, a girl rushed out from the side alley, panting heavily, but still insisted on extending her hand to invite him in a hurry: "Would you like to stay at our hotel? There are some interesting girls here..."

She even managed a coquettish glance, and actually seemed to be quite good-looking, with her thin floral shirt bulging out even more.

It's just that she ran too fast, and her eyes were like a blind bear rolling its eyes, and she was a little out of breath.

The sixty-year-old titanium straight man, like a genuine virgin, raised his hand to block it as if it were nothing, but then withdrew it halfway.

This fake move deceived the opponent again. He thought that the delicate body would be pulled by him, but when it was approaching, it missed and fell to the ground!
She fell so hard that she couldn't even scream.

Ran Weidong had already run far away.

After rushing out of the medicinal materials market, I found that this road was parallel to the road with buses outside. Each section was a market. At this intersection, I could see several men running from the main road.

On the side where the girl came from, there was a little kid looking at her from a distance.

This place is free, but it is too free!
I made up my mind and rushed into the next market without even having time to look at the sign.

The result was a pile of vegetables, fruits and melons!

It was crowded with people and very noisy.

If it were a movie directed by Brother Long, this scene would definitely be extremely exciting.

Wei Dong even felt happy when he watched TV series and videos when he had nothing to do, and immersed himself in the crowd.

He used the same agility and footwork as he did on the basketball court and quickly crossed into another seafood market.

Wear it again in the wet and fishy smell, then go to the grain and oil and non-staple food market, then wear it again in the bedding market, then wear it again in the pots, pans, and small hardware market...

It was like Weidong swimming the butterfly stroke. Every time he came out of the water to take a breath, he would find a new market space underwater.

But at this moment he finally realized something. After the city became a municipality directly under the central government, he seemed to have heard that the area around the provincial capital's wharf was the largest small commodity wholesale market along the river in the entire eastern Sichuan region.

Small vendors from all counties and cities come here to purchase goods, and then transport them back conveniently by boat.

This was also the business strategy used by almost all self-employed individuals in Shangzhou City in the 1990s and 2000s to make their fortunes, and tax commissioners often battled wits and courage with them.

Could it be that the prototype already existed in the 1980s?

Even Weidong, with his not-so-smart brain, could figure out that I could carry the bacon up here, exchange it for money to buy goods from the provincial capital, and then sell them back in the city and county. I could make money both ways, so wouldn't that be double the wealth?

But at this moment he finally saw the opportunity to retract his feet and fall back.

Just between the small hardware market and the bed sheet and quilt cover market, facing the river, there is a stone staircase extending into the river for unloading ships, and it is crowded with farmers on both sides.

Before them were baskets of various agricultural products.

This is the free market that Weidong is looking for!
It turns out it's hidden in this corner.

But this place is too free.

Just like this era of wild growth, you can drown if you are not careful.

(End of this chapter)